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Wild Apples, Knoll’s collection of poems about downsizing, moving 3,000 miles from Oregon to Vermont, living alone in the Vermont woods during Covid, and welcoming two grandsons is available now from Fernwood Press. Also available on Amazon.com and at your favorite bookstore.
The Unknown Daughter is now available at Amazon and at the publisher’s website, Finishing Line.
Other recent poetry publications:
- “Sunday Afternoon in Early September,” on Willawaw Journal, April, 2024.
- McQueen’s Quinterly for January 1, 2024: “The White Hydrangea with a Voice Disability Prepares for the Devotions of Lauds,” a cento based on the poetry of Louis Gluck.
- New review of One Bent Twig on Rain Taxi by George Longenecker, December 2023.
- Take a look at blurbs about poems in One Bent Twig. Check out the listing on Amazon or on Goodreads. A free version for Kindle is available too!
- Let’s Hear It for the Horses received third prize in The Poetry Box 2021 chapbook contest and is available from The Poetry Box and Amazon.
- Checkered Mates (What is a Checkered Mate?) is now available from Kelsay Books and Amazon! (Published in 2021.)
- Visit Antrim House (press release) for more information on How I Learned to Be White – poetry that investigates how ancestry, family, community, and white privilege impact Knoll’s feelings about today’s racial discourse. Available on Amazon. This collection received the 2018 Human Relations Indie Book Award for Motivational Poetry.
- Order Broadfork Farm from The Poetry Box and Amazon. This poetry highlights a small family-owned organic farm in Trout Lake, Washington – the people, the work, and the creatures who live there.
Recent essays
- “My Brief Take on Eco-Poetry” on Verse Virtual, March 2024
- Poetic License essay in March, 2023 Verse Virtual: “Scanning the Poetry on My Shelves” – Women’s History Month tribute to women poets
A list of Knoll’s online poems.
Bio: Tricia Knoll has been writing poetry since the age of 12. She began submitting poetry for publication after retiring. Ten poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and one for Best of Net.
Her first published poem was in 1970 in a tabloid called View from the Bottom. Then for 40 years, she wrote promotional or education materials to earn a living. More than 300 of her haiku and poems have appeared in online or print journals and poetry anthologies. Visit the “books” tab for introductions to her collected works.
Described in bytes: Mother, grandmother, wife, feminist, dancer, weight lifter, Master Gardener. She writes eco-poetry, lyric and narrative poetry and haiku. In 2015 Tricia wrote her thoughts on feminism for The Persimmon Tree Journal and in 2016 a contribution to Trish Hopkinson’s blog on why she regrets waiting until after retirement to begin writing seriously.
Eco-poetry? Poetry that highlights connectedness in nature, responsibility to care for the world we’ve been given, help to remember what we have lost – and encourages holding up hope for doing no more harm. Knoll’s poem “Gray Whale” is included in the 2018 anthology Fire and Rain – Eco-Poetry of California out from Scarlet Tanager Press.
- Knoll is a contributing editor to Verse Virtual.
- Listen to Tricia’s podcast interview concerning her experience as a poet with spasmodic dysphonia. It includes a reading from her chapbook Urban Wild. Wordgathering – Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature also features recordings of Knoll reading two of her poems related to this voice disability.
- Knoll’s listing on Poets and Writers.